Gotta second Ichini Sanshigo on the Church’s assessment. I originally read **Aestivalis’ **assessment of chicken places as the opposite, putting Church’s on the bottom and I was going to add:
Church’s<<Bucket of salted Crisco<<Popeye’s or KFC
Just came back from a run to KFC. No problem getting extra crispy here. They weren’t all that busy, at 6:30 on a Sunday night. They had the meal ready at the window as soon as I drove up to pay. I’ve had nothing but good experiences at KFC.
NOOOOOOOOOOOO
I thought it was bad when they were out of chili…oh, and don’t get me started on those hot summer days when you roll up to the drive thru and order an Iced Capp and hear those horrible, horrible words…“The machine is broken.”
In Canada we get the 4/$6 deal at Arby’s. Basically, you can choose from a couple of junior sandwiches, a drink, mozza sticks and some other stuff. What pisses me off is that they only have the curly fries on that menu, not the normal ones.
For me the KFC franchise ruined one of my old favorites when they combined with Long John Silver’s. LJS used to have the best fish and chips you could get from a fast food place. Now they cook the fish in the same oil they cook the chicken in, and the delicate batter is a thing of the past.
I’ve heard several people sing Popeye’s praises, but I haven’t had access to one since the first Reagan administration. I don’t eat Bojangle’s because I have had in the past only about a 25% success rate in getting the Southern fried I ordered instead of the Cajun which I don’t like.
I got fried chicken at a Publix at Dragon*Con this year, and now I really wish we had Publix here in Charlotte.
You sure it wasn’t 4-for-5? I remember being pissed when the promo came up again a few years ago, and was only 4 for $5.00, and 3 for $5 for the “better” sandwiches (Beef 'n Cheese). I used to get 10 for $10, and eat for a couple of days on that…
Joe
Looking around online, it looks like probably what I got was a 5 for $5.95, not a 5 for $5. My mistake!
Quit your damned bitching. You have an Apple store and an Ikea and a Costco and, what, a Whole Foods, right? And you want my Publix?
Sounds like the asbestos didn’t do its job. 
I used to have KFC as a client. I know that there were certain items that they offered that every franchisee was contractually obligated to carry (Original Recipe chicken, Snackers, etc.), and there were some items that were optional, depending on what the franchisee felt would sell well in his or her market.
Sounds like Extra Crispy has now wound up on that second list (I can confirm that the company has not discontinued it). I’d have to guess that the original poster’s franchisee has decided that it didn’t sell well enough anymore. As another poster noted, KFC cooks their chicken in batches…if they were consistently throwing out partial batches of Extra Crispy because it wasn’t selling well enough, that’d be a fairly easy decision for the franchisee (though, obviously, disappointing to Extra Crispy fans).
I never said I wanted your Publix. That’s my mom’s Publix, too, don’t forget.
I just want a Publix.
Ha! I have TWO Publixes! I have Publixes I don’t even go to, but I keep them here in case I ever want to.
My local Arby’s has had 5 for $5 at least twice so far this year, so you may not have been mistaken.
I last saw 5 for $5.95 several years ago.
:deduces where one of them is, goes to web site to see where second one is:
Holy crap! Columbia has more Publixes than Lynchburg has liquor! There are two just in Irmo?!? Irmites get to chose between two but none for Charlotte?!?
Oh, now it’s on. It is so on.
It’s because you won’t give us the fucking Costco. We’re holding Publix hostage.
Here in Washington State we had 5 for $5 just about six weeks ago. Now I wish I’d taken advantage of it - I will next time it comes around…
Yup, I’m sure I saw it sometime over the summer here in the midwest. I remember because I’ve seen it go from 5 for $5 to 4 for $5 to 5 for $5.95 etc. and was surprised they went back to the original. That is why I was surprised they wanted me to trade 4 delicious roast beef sandwiches for an order of lousy fries and a poorly mixed soda… oh, and I owe them a penny as well.
And this was after I went to KFC and ordered three popcorn chickens for the kids and then ordered my Extra Crispy Breast Meal and was pointed to the sign that they now only serve crap. There was something else on the sign that they also don’t serve, but my eyes were so filled with rage I couldn’t read it (so I also may have misread that they were only serving crap now… it may have been original and grilled). The girl at the counter re-assured me, just after I threw the cash register through the window, that they did still serve it at “some stores”, but this is the only one close to my house.
I was going to go next door to Taco Bell, but was afraid that what I was ordering would now be on the $9.99 menu.
Sorry, gotta go… my wife seems to think I forgot my medicine tonight… AGAIN.
I have also been to an Arby’s when they ran out of beef. I ordered chicken.
They were out of that too.
Don’t make me point out that y’all also have all the gorram Rush’s in the world, too.
And Edna’s.
We invented Rush’s. What has Charlotte invented?
That’s what I thought.
Price’s Chicken Coop
If you haven’t, you should.